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Morgan Stanley's investment management division, MSIM, announced the launch of a stablecoin reserve portfolio fund (MSNXX), which is a government money market fund designed specifically for stablecoin issuers. It aims to provide a regulated and secure storage place for reserves held by issuers that back their tokenized fiat currency versions.The fund only invests in the safest and most liquid instruments, such as U.S. Treasury bills (short-term loans to the U.S. government) and repurchase agreements (overnight loans secured by similar government securities), both of which aim for capital preservation. The fund's target net asset value is $1, meaning that the invested capital retains the same value upon redemption, avoiding price fluctuations; at the same time, the fund offers daily liquidity, allowing investors to redeem funds on any trading day without a waiting period or penalties.Currently, the market capitalization of stablecoins has reached $316 billion, with tokens pegged to the U.S. dollar, such as Tether and USDC, holding the majority share. Morgan Stanley's launch of the fund coincides with the advancement of the GENIUS Act in Congress. If passed, this act would legally require stablecoin issuers to back their tokens with high-quality liquid assets such as Treasury bills and cash-like instruments, and they must be held through regulated instruments. Thus, the fund is positioned to take on reserve management business ahead of regulatory mandates.Additionally, Morgan Stanley Investment Management recently launched the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), which is a cryptocurrency ETP that tracks Bitcoin, with custodial and fund management services provided by BNY Mellon. It has also collaborated with BNY Mellon to launch tokenized DAP class shares of an institutional liquidity fund Treasury securities portfolio, achieving blockchain-based mirror records while the official ledger remains retained by BNY Mellon.

Ju.com officially announced the launch of its new product matrix Hyper Trade, with the first three lightweight interactive products "Happy BTC," "Finger Trading," and "Bounty Duel" going live.This product is developed by Ju.com, with a core positioning of "market prediction interactive experience." The product relies on real-time market price fluctuations and focuses on three main features: "low threshold, short cycle, and transparent settlement," aiming to lower the technical barriers for users participating in market predictions through multi-dimensional interactive logic.Hyper Trade has been launched today at 16:00 (UTC+8) on both the web and app platforms. The platform stated that it will continue to optimize the product matrix in the future, building a more intuitive digital asset interactive ecosystem for users while ensuring compliance and transparency.

Blockchain.com announced the launch of perpetual contract trading features supported by Hyperliquid in its non-custodial DeFi wallet, allowing users to conduct leveraged trading directly within their own wallets without the need to transfer assets to third-party exchanges, achieving full self-custody.

Sky (formerly MakerDAO) posted on the X platform stating that it has currently suspended the omnichain fungible token (Omnichain Fungible Token) cross-chain bridging function for USDS. It will further assess the impact of the rsETH-related security incident while emphasizing that its protocol itself and the USDS contract have not been affected temporarily. USDS remains fully collateralized as designed by the protocol and can be verified on-chain at any time.

According to the Wall Street Journal, trading and investment platform eToro announced the acquisition of self-custody crypto wallet provider Zengo, with the specific acquisition amount undisclosed.The acquisition aims to combine eToro's global multi-asset platform and distribution channels with Zengo's non-custodial wallet technology, supporting Zengo's next phase of growth while expanding eToro's digital asset capabilities.

According to official news, Tether has announced the launch of tether.wallet, a self-custody digital wallet that puts Tether's global financial infrastructure directly in the hands of users.With the launch of tether.wallet, this funding distribution network is now open directly to end users for the first time. This release marks a further extension of Tether's efforts in building an open financial system and expands its capabilities into products for everyday use.

Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined Binance's business partners, covering key aspects such as stablecoins, payment channels, blockchain infrastructure, risk control compliance, and application scenarios, forming a cryptocurrency liquidity center centered around "capital flow."Binance, as a self-circulating capital system, has funds entering, flowing, consuming, and settling all within the same system: At the base level, Tether and Circle provide core liquidity; on the entry side, PayPal, VISA, Mastercard, and others continuously introduce new funds; on the blockchain and trading layer, Aptos, TRON, and others enhance asset richness and circulation efficiency; at the same time, Binance maintains compliance capabilities through TRM Labs, Elliptic, and others.All partners serve around "liquidity efficiency." The role of scenario-based partners like Travala, predict.fun, and Four.Meme is to continuously extend the lifecycle of funds within the system, creating a sustainable cycle. In terms of brand strategy, Binance focuses on areas such as F1 (Alpine) and football, and is committed to promoting cryptocurrency education.In addition, Binance is also strengthening the connectivity of the "tool layer," besides the early acquisition of CoinMarketCap, it is also forming synergies with data and analysis tools like RootData and Bubblemaps, gradually incorporating information flow and decision flow beyond capital flow into its ecosystem. Related collection 【Binance Web3 Partner Network Collection (continuously updated)】Note: This statistic does not include Binance token airdrop partners (including Alpha / Holder airdrops and staking yield projects), mainly due to the large number of related collaborations, which are more inclined towards incentives and do not constitute the core business structure.Cryptocurrency projects actively showcasing their partner networks has become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 project parties to claim data, and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple editions of cryptocurrency project ecological maps, nominating Web3 ecosystem partners for upstream clients such as Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase.If you wish to nominate your project in future ecological maps, please fill out the 【RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping】 form to supplement your important clients and partners.

OKX founder and CEO Star responded to the tweet "Xu Mingxing rarely attends Hong Kong meetings," stating that he will gradually distance himself from the rumors and focus more on internal management, strategy, and technological products. OKX is also abandoning businesses it is not good at, concentrating on building great products, a comprehensive compliance and governance system, and establishing long-term, solid trust with regulators.He mentioned that the people in the photo are all old friends, and he is also an investor in some of the companies. Although there has been competition among peers in the past, essentially, everyone has worked together for many years and are all close brothers.At the same time, he acknowledged some inherent flaws in his personality—low emotional intelligence, being too straightforward, overly serious, and too persistent about right and wrong, as well as not being good at handling complex interpersonal relationships and individual business negotiations.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) recalls in his new book that from the very beginning, the positioning of BNB was larger than the Binance exchange itself. He wrote in the white paper: BNB does not represent equity. As a utility token, holders can enjoy fee discounts when trading on Binance, and the application scenarios of BNB will not be limited to the exchange; in the future, it will also expand to the blockchain and DeFi ecosystem.

The TRON network super representatives (SR) have initiated Proposal No. 106 and entered the committee voting phase. If the proposal passes the vote, it is expected to take effect on April 10 at 20:00 (Singapore time). The proposal aims to adjust the execution behavior and cost of the SELFDESTRUCT instruction: the contract will only be truly deleted if the instruction is called in the same transaction that creates the contract; in other cases, only the contract assets will be transferred, and the contract itself will not be deleted. At the same time, the energy consumption of SELFDESTRUCT will be adjusted from 0 to 5000.If the proposal passes, the relevant mechanism will further align with Ethereum, helping to enhance TVM compatibility. TRON reminds developers who have used SELFDESTRUCT to closely monitor the progress of the proposal and prepare for adaptation in advance. If nodes experience synchronization issues, it is recommended to first check whether they have been upgraded to v4.8.1.

Monad co-founder Keone Hon released a protocol security self-inspection checklist on the X platform, focusing on core issues such as management permissions, fund security, and multi-signature mechanism design, which mainly includes ten points:Clearly identify which admin functions may lead to fund loss;Ensure that relevant operations are time-locked;Establish a real-time monitoring mechanism;Provide timely alerts when admin functions are called;Review all privileged accounts and try to use a multi-signature (k-of-n) structure;Clarify signature threshold parameters;Multi-signature signers should use independent cold devices solely for signing operations and follow best practices (such as independently verifying transaction hashes);Set rate limits on withdrawals and avoid control by the same multi-signature;Ensure employee devices have malware detection and management capabilities;Predefine extreme scenarios where multi-signature signers are compromised, reverse engineer potential attack paths from the attacker's perspective, and optimize system design accordingly to increase attack costs and complexity.

According to a report by Jinshi Data, "Fed mouthpiece" Nick Timiraos stated that the surge in energy prices has made the already tricky power transition at the Federal Reserve even more difficult.This process was already quite complex. Kevin Walsh's appointment has been stalled due to a Department of Justice investigation and obstruction from Tillis. Additionally, unlike previous Federal Reserve chairs since Volcker, Walsh has committed to a complete break from his predecessor's policies rather than continuing them.Currently, the market expects a 50-50 chance of interest rate hikes and cuts this year, which could put Walsh in a dilemma: on one hand, there is the president who nominated him, and on the other, the committee he is about to lead.In 2008, after a period of aggressive rate cuts, oil prices suddenly surged. At that time, Walsh strongly pointed out that the inflation risk "is the main risk" and suggested that the Fed's next move should be to raise interest rates. However, Trump's expectations were exactly the opposite.

A bill in Kentucky, USA, aimed at regulating cryptocurrency ATMs (HB380), has sparked controversy in the industry due to newly added hardware wallet-related provisions. Critics claim that the regulation may "effectively ban self-custody."The bill originally focused on operators of virtual currency kiosks, covering licensing, compliance requirements, transaction limits, and user protection. However, in the latest revision, new provisions require hardware wallet providers to "offer mechanisms and assist users in resetting access credentials," including passwords, PINs, and recovery phrases. Industry insiders point out that this requirement conflicts with the core design of non-custodial wallets. Since private keys and recovery phrases are solely controlled by the user, wallet providers themselves cannot access or recover this information, making the provision technically difficult to implement.Institutions like the Bitcoin Policy Institute have stated that such regulations effectively create a "backdoor" for wallets, undermining the security of crypto assets and potentially forcing users to turn to centralized custodial services. The bill still needs to be reviewed by the state Senate, and the relevant provisions may still be modified or removed.

According to The Block, Amy Oldenburg, the head of digital asset strategy at Morgan Stanley, stated at the Washington Blockchain Summit that the adoption of crypto ETFs is still in a very early stage, with about 80% of the demand for crypto ETFs on the platform coming from self-directed investors rather than advisor-managed accounts.Oldenburg described Morgan Stanley's advancement of crypto products as "an orderly step-by-step journey," emphasizing that the wealth management team still has a lot of work to do in terms of education and portfolio construction to help financial advisors incorporate digital assets into asset allocation models. Morgan Stanley has opened brokerage account purchase permissions for Bitcoin ETFs in 2024 and applied to list Bitcoin and Solana spot ETFs in January of this year.At the institutional allocation level, Morgan Stanley's Global Investment Committee recommends that the allocation of crypto assets in model portfolios should not exceed 4%, while Bank of America also supports an allocation range of 1% to 4%, and BlackRock and Fidelity have provided similar guidance. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan pointed out that some professional investors are currently considering increasing their allocation to about 5%.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Market Participants Division issued a "no-action" letter to the self-custody cryptocurrency wallet software developer Phantom Technologies Inc.The letter addresses the software features that Phantom intends to offer and promote, allowing its users to trade through registered futures commission merchants (FCMs), introducing brokers (IBs), and designated contract markets (DCMs). The CFTC stated that, under certain conditions, the Market Participants Division would not recommend enforcement action against Phantom or its related personnel solely for the aforementioned activities without being registered as an introducing broker or its affiliates.

Web3 security company GoPlus stated that the AI development tool OpenClaw has recently been reported to have experienced a self-attack security incident. During the execution of automated tasks, the system constructed an incorrect Bash command while calling Shell commands to create a GitHub Issue, inadvertently triggering command injection, which led to the exposure of a large number of sensitive environment variables.In the incident, the AI-generated string contained a set wrapped in backticks, which was interpreted by Bash as command substitution and executed automatically. Since Bash outputs all current environment variables when executing set without parameters, this ultimately resulted in over 100 lines of sensitive information (including Telegram keys, authentication tokens, etc.) being directly written to the GitHub Issue and publicly published. GoPlus recommends that in AI automation development or testing scenarios, API calls should be used instead of directly concatenating Shell commands, and the principle of least privilege should be followed to isolate environment variables. Additionally, high-risk execution modes should be disabled, and a manual review mechanism should be introduced for critical operations.

The founder of Binance, CZ, responded to early Bitcoin investor Davinci Jeremie regarding the "zero balance" experience of his multi-signature wallet, stating that if a wallet software upgrade changes the derivation path, it is "very bad and scary," referring to it as "self custody perks."Previously, Davinci pointed out that his 2-of-3 multi-signature wallet was unable to find the original address and balance despite using the correct private key due to a software change in the derivation path, and he ultimately relied on the saved old path to recover it. Several industry participants added that different standards (such as BIP44, BIP84, BIP86) can generate different addresses under the same mnemonic phrase, and if a wallet upgrade is not adequately prompted and migrated, it could lead to users misjudging the risk of asset loss.

According to the American financial media Semafor, Paypal (PYPL.O) and Stripe are currently not in negotiations. Paypal (PYPL.O) currently has no plans to sell itself. According to insiders, Paypal has been working with bankers for months to prepare for potential activist investor actions or unwanted acquisition offers.Insiders stated that after a significant drop in PayPal's stock price, executives are facing the risk of initiating an acquisition process as a precautionary measure. Bankers began collaborating with PayPal during the tenure of former CEO Alex Chriss, who left on February 3.